It's all about timing...

Birthday Party timing can be tough at this age, more often than not, we get invited to parties ranging from times 11:30-3:00. All of which we want to attend, we love celebrating our friends birthday's. But, in our household, that's smack dab in the middle of naptime.....and we don't have a flexible on naptime kind of child, so skipping nap turns out to be a nightmare, waking him up early turns out to be a nightmare. The only solution we've came up w/ after 3 parties where Will won't participate, clings to one of us and cries nonstop, is let him sleep, we'll come when he wakes up.

BUT, occasionally, you have a party that's off the beaten path of "normal" time and it turns out to be the best time. Will went to a 9:30 am party for a friend at school at the same place he had his bday party, Bouncin Craze, and he had a BALL!!! He couldn't get enough of the "hepicopter", and he went down the huge obsticle course with Daddy,

He was all smiles the majority of the party (water works appeared when he had to share the "hepicopter")

But he was off climing and sliding before the tears dried. (yes, we cheated and let him wear his shoes, another "not worth the tears" moment we wanted to avoid.)

Fortunately Daddy was there to chase, I wasn't in my rare form like I was for his bday.

Here are the Martin's! Both of these precious kiddo's have the same last night. I said from the infant room that they'd marry someday, it was Will's first girlfriend (sort of); Miss A was sad and crying one day and Will was sitting in front of her sucking his thumb and he reached out w/ the other thumb and offered it to her for comfort.

He and Kellen had a ball in this house...well all the kids fit in there at one point. I told Will he could have one but Duke would eat it so not right now!

He loved carrying around the BIG orange ball. He'd use his MUSCLES to lift it!

"DADDY, SIT DOWN" Love the pink chair!

I was so proud, he really tried everything this time. And it was so fun to watch him interact w/ his buddies; they play together at school everyday, but us parents rarely get to see that.

And when it was time to go in for cake, pizza and presents, Mr. Will had worked up quite an appetite. Though he was very upset he had to leave the helicopter. So the moral of the story is, early morning or evening parties ROCK! And Will went home and passed out for 3 hours after his adventures. Can't beat that!!!

Halloween 2010

I know, I know, this is a week or two off. But here it is none the less!

Halloween this year wasn't much of anything. Will wanted no part of his schools Halloween parade, trick or treating was a bust and his costume consisted of camo pants and a brown shirt. He did have an orange vest to go w/ this ensemble, but wasn't worth the tears so we left it off. He did however use red paint at school and made it look like he actually went hunting so a little theatrics to the "costume".

It was a great weekend for trick or treating, maybe we'll join in next year.

For now, Will just had fun carrying around the pumpkins!

We were productive on Halloween weekend, however...we had a garage sale. Grace came over to play with Will Saturday morning while we sold lots of stuff!

They had a ball w/ this load of books my neighbor brought over to sell.

Will even helped out with the money list. Soooo, though we didn't do much in the way of dressing up, it was a great weekend and we enjoyed lots of family time.

Weekend in Austin

This is a couple weeks old, but had to post our trip to Austin.

Not that it's ever planned, but for the past 3 years we've made a trip to Austin in October. 1st year to meet Miss Allison and introduce Will (3 months old at the time) to my dear friend Brooke and her family. 2nd year we went down for Allison's 1st Birthday. Then this year we spent Allison's Daddy's birthday weekend in Austin. So, I think it's become an annual trip and one I look forward to every year.

This year we trecked it out to Marble Falls to their Pumpkin Patch. Will got to ride a tractor, paint a pumpkin, see full size riding horsies and enjoy the day w/ his buddies Allison & Eli.

Unfortunately, the morning was a bit rough because Will didn't get a great nights sleep the night before, so after lunch we spent the afternoon taking a very much needed long nap at Mimi's house before we played some more.

Allison and Will had so much fun together, they read and shared and pretty much did everything together and got along great. (an issue Brooke was worried about w/ Allison)

I took my camera for the weekend only to snap 1 picture before the battery went dead so these are the only shots I have sent to me from Brooke. We had a wonderful weekend with our friends and can't wait for them to come to OKC to spend time here when Baby Martin arrives and over the summer at the lake. I can picture it now, Allison, Eli & Will running all over the beach. Thank heaven I won't be pregnant by that point, I'm sure it will be an exhausting weekend!